There are also more or less "Mises Colleges" one is Hillside or
Hillsomething in
Michigan, and they do do some 'unplanned' experiments--like not having any
paths
to and from buildings, as an experiment in "spontaneous order."--I'd heard
this
somewhere don't know if it's true. Richard Ebeling teaches at the Hill-one,
he's
the Mises Professor. Another one in Pennsylvania, the name blanks me again,
Western PA, where Pete Boettke got his B.A. Hans someone, not Hans-Hermann
Hoppe
I don't think but another one, teaches there. By the way, NYU, George
Mason, and
Auburn all have Austrian programs or sub-programs. NYU and George Mason
represent a bit of a different Austrian tradition than Auburn. Auburn is
the
Rothbard tradition, and supposedly they are not very fond of Hayek there
(he was
a socialist!). NYU, where Mises and Lachmann were for years, has Israel
Kirzner,
as well as Mario Rizzo, and they did have Boettke until he moved to George
Mason. GM has Don Lavoie, Karen Vaughn, Boettke, and a few others. GM also
has
Buchanan, who I have much, much less patience for. By the by the way (By
the
way way?), I have done the Austrian seminars at GM and NYU and found them
both
very open and receptive. I spoke on Lowe and made critiques of Austrian
econ.
They were fine, and even invited me to submit my papers to their journals,
and I
have a paper in Advances in Austrian Economics and another one coming out
in
Review of Austrian Economics. Who'd a thunk? Never experienced that kind of
interest in Lowe at the New School!
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Devine [mailto:jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:10 PM
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PEN-L:8366] Mises University
It turns out there's a Mises University, in Auburn Alabama (see
http://www.mises.org/). Like Doug, they question the "newness" of the U.S.
new economy. In the spirit of von Mises, I'd bet that the university is
totally unplanned, since the professors have much more information than any
central planner could. Further, I bet they use the market to assign
grades... After all, who could be a better judge of what grade a student
deserves than the student him or herself?
Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine